The Shoah (1939–1945)
Internment at Royallieu Camp
déc. 1941·Compiègne
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The Compiègne camp, run by the German army, receives the rounded-up notables and supplies the first deportation convoy.
The Royallieu camp, on the outskirts of Compiègne, is the only internment camp in France administered directly by the German army. One section of it is reserved for Jews rounded up in Paris in the late autumn — most of them prominent figures — who are subjected there to a regime of isolation and undernourishment of a severity unmatched in any French camp. Dozens of them die during the first winter; others are shot as hostages. It is from Compiègne that one of the very first deportation convoys to leave French territory departs the following spring.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.